Celery
#b4c04c
A yellow that is muted. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#b4c04c
RGB
180, 192, 76
OKLCh
77.6% 0.140 114.7°
CIELAB (D50)
75.1, -15.8, 55.1
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 4 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses 80% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 38.2; on black, Lc -64.1. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- tritanopia shifts it by ΔE00 13.0 — no blue cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.98:1 — fails AA
Black text
10.58:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at10.58:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#747d00 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some saturation was given up to stay inside sRGB.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#b4c04c
protanopia
#bfbf4c · ΔE00 3.1
deuteranopia
#bdbd4d · ΔE00 3.1
tritanopia
#baba91 · ΔE00 13.0
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isSativa at ΔE00 0.688: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- SativaΔE00 0.688 · #b5bf50
- SinsemillaΔE00 1.357 · #b6bd4a
- Rainforest GlowΔE00 1.411 · #b2c346
- HopscotchΔE00 1.491 · #afbb42
- Money BanksΔE00 2.148 · #aabe49
- Japanese FernΔE00 2.464 · #b5b94c
- Lush BambooΔE00 2.548 · #afbb33
- Tropic CanaryΔE00 2.87 · #bcc23c
- Wild WillowΔE00 2.976 · #beca60
- Asparagus FernΔE00 3.049 · #b9cb5a
- Forsythia BudΔE00 3.049 · #bbcc55
- Golden PassionfruitΔE00 3.118 · #b4bb31
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.